Come se nel cuore della natura di uno scrittore ci fosse la purezza. Il cielo aiuti un simile scrittore! Come se Joyce non avesse annusato oscenamente le mutande di Nora. Come se nell’anima di Dostoevskij...

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most...

In my parents’ day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it’s the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it’s the classics that are to blame. Today the...

Every man’s endeavor was imbued with responsibility

La fente, comme tracée au tire-ligne, cette superbe couture rabattue, qui s’épanouira un jour en pétales et, au fil du temps, deviendra le con de la femme, un pliage d’origami.

Writting turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn’t completely wreck...

This kindly unjudging judgment of the Swede could well have been a new development in Jerry, compassion a few hours old. That can happen when people die–the argument with them drops away and people so...

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we...